The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 1078
"Enter the city!"

Liu Zhuwen bowed his hands to Mei Bingbing, and ordered the army to enter the city.

The army followed behind Mei Bingbing and the others, and walked slowly towards Huazhu City.

The Huazhu City is not very luxurious, and the houses along the street are mainly single-storey earthen houses.Two-story wooden buildings are rare.

This is of course much worse than Changsha City, and it looks similar to those more prosperous counties in the Dasong Guangnan West Road.

There are only a few defenders at the gate of the city.

The people went into the city and left the city, and no one questioned them.

Obviously, Mei Bingbing had no intention of going head-to-head with the Great Song Imperial Army from the beginning.

The arrival of the Imperial Army of the Song Dynasty attracted many people in the city to stop and watch.There are also shopkeepers or young men running out of the shops along the street to look around.

Some people have faint hostility in their eyes.

Just seeing Mei Bingbing in front of and behind the army, the hostility quietly dissipated, and they all knelt down to salute Mei Bingbing.

Some of them are still referred to as "young city masters".

Obviously, Mei Bingbing has not been the lord of Huazhu City for a long time.

Mei Bingbing didn't take the stance, and repeatedly bowed to the people on the street.

This made Liu Zhuwen and others have a very good impression of him.

The patriarchs of the various tribes in Dali passed it on by blood, and Mei Bingbing inherited his father's business. He used to be the biggest son of Gaoliang in Huazhu City, but he didn't see that kind of rebellious dandyism in him.

His kind attitude towards the common people is quite in line with Zhao Dongting's proposition of benevolent government and loving the people.

And the common people seem to be quite convinced of the young city lord.

After entering the city, Mei Bingbing led the army straight to the barracks in the west of the city.

There are many fences around the military camp, and the houses are still more than a hundred meters away.The gate of the barracks was only guarded by a few soldiers wearing cloth armor and holding spears, and it was quite empty.

Mei Bingbing walked slowly beside Liu Zhuwen on horseback, and before Liu Zhuwen could speak, he sighed softly: "Since the Dali royal family established the Forbidden Army, [-]% of our Huazhu Warriors have been transferred, and the Western Army Camp has been vacant. Commander Liu, let the soldiers rest here first, if they don’t stay, there are still vacant houses in the Dongjun Camp.”

Liu Zhuwen cupped his hands again to Mei Bingbing, "Then I would like to thank City Lord Mei."

He knew that there were not many soldiers in Huazhu City now.

Originally, [-]% of the soldiers were transferred to form the Dali Forbidden Army, and later, many were transferred to Prince Gan to send them to attack the Song Dynasty.

Tyranny is fiercer than a tiger.

Duan Qilin gathered the power of the whole country to attack the Song Dynasty, which can be said to have hollowed out the foundations of these tribes in Dali.

Presumably, Mei Bingbing and the others also had great resentment about this, otherwise, they would not have taken the initiative to lead the army to surrender.

It's hard to say that Duan Qilin won the hearts of the people, but he definitely won't be supported by these Dali patriarchs.

Perhaps he wanted to imitate Zhao Dongting's policy of abolishing nobles in the Song Dynasty, but he didn't think that Dali's national conditions were completely different from those of the Song Dynasty.

The difference in vision between him and Zhao Dongting is too great, which cannot be made up for by his familiarity with other books.After all, Zhao Dongting's thinking and vision are far beyond this era.

Liu Zhuwen let the army enter the camp.

Mei Bingbing watched from the side, and said apologetically, "Commander Liu, the granary in the city is empty, so I'm sorry I can't entertain you soldiers."

Liu Zhuwen was quite surprised, "Has the Huazhu Department reached this point?"

Even in Shicheng County, Xinding Department, and Luo Ding Department, there are more or less surplus food.It didn't seem like this Hua Zhubu was out of ammunition and food.

Mei Bingbing sighed when he heard the words, glanced lightly at Wang Zigan who was not far from Liu Zhuwen, and said: "When Marshal Wang led the army to go out, this Huazhu City was still under the control of my father. He not only pulled out of the city Half of the troops went out, and all the food and grass in the city were taken away by the army."

Liu Zhuwen was even more puzzled, "The Dali Duan family exploits you so much, why does your father still support the Duan family's militarism?"

Mei Bingbing said: "In my father's generation, my uncle and my father fought for power. It was Dali Duan's help that allowed my father to keep the position of patriarch. My father owes Duan's kindness."

"I see."

Liu Zhuwen nodded slightly, and only asked again: "Then why did you choose to surrender to our Song Dynasty now, City Lord Mei?"

Mei Bingbing said: "Father died in depression when he learned that the army was defeated at the front. Our Mei family has paid back the debt owed to the Duan family. I have to find a way out for the uncles and brothers in the clan."

Liu Zhuwen sighed softly: "The Mayor and the old city lord attach great importance to love and righteousness, and Liu Zhuwen admires their heroic deeds."

What he said was really not a compliment, because in his capacity, there was absolutely no need to compliment Mei Bingbing.

But the character and deeds of Mei Bingbing and his father are indeed admirable.

The old city lord paid great attention to his kindness and spared no effort to help the emperor of Dali to repay his kindness.

Mei Bingbing resolutely chose to surrender to Song in order to protect the people in Huazhubu.From the beginning to the end, he didn't think much about himself.

Of course, this can also be said in reverse.

The old city lord does not value righteousness, and Mei Bingbing does not value kindness.

But since ancient times, things have been difficult to have both.

As Mei Bingbing said, their Mei family has already repaid Duan's kindness.

If Zhao Dongting was here, maybe he would say that the old city lord is too pedantic.Duan's kindness is really nothing in front of the entire Huazhu people.

It's just that Liu Zhuwen won't say much.

After the army had all entered the barracks, he, Miao Cheng, Zhang Hongwei and a dozen others followed Mei Bingbing to the City Lord's Mansion.

Sword Fourteen, Hong Gui, Hong Wutian, Mrs. Xu and other real martial arts masters all went together.

With such a powerful camp, even if Mei Bingbing is a false surrender, it is very unlikely that he would murder Liu Zhuwen and others.

In fact, of course he didn't.

Mei Bingbing surrendered sincerely.

In the City Lord's Mansion, after the banquet was set up, the atmosphere seemed quite harmonious.

From the beginning to the end, Mei Bingbing not only did not say that he wanted to continue to be in charge of the Huazhu Department, but also bluntly told Liu Zhuwen and others that all Huazhu Departments would be under the control of the Song Dynasty in the future.

He wants to give up power automatically.

On the contrary, Liu Zhuwen couldn't help asking: "Could it be that City Lord Mei never thought about continuing to be in charge of the Huazhu Department?"

Mei Bingbing chuckled, "I have been to the Great Song Dynasty for two years to study, and witnessed the prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty with my own eyes. I think it is hard for me to do better than the officials of the Great Song Dynasty."

He seemed quite free and easy.

Liu Zhuwen and the others were all slightly taken aback, and then just smiled.

Mei Bingbing is indeed much better than Du Yongchang and others in the new department.

At dusk, Changsha city.

Another army entered the city.

There are still many people rushing to the streets and the city to wait and greet.

Zhao Da and Zhao Hu led the Feilong Army back.

As the Imperial Army of the Great Song Dynasty, the Feilong Army's prestige in the hearts of the people in Changsha is not inferior to that of the Tiankui Army.

Zhao Da and Zhao Hu, two black men, listened to the shouts of the people at the top of the city, triumphantly, and led the army slowly into the city.

It's just that Zhao Dongting didn't rush to the top of the city to greet him this time.

After all, Zhao Da and Zhao Hu are only army commanders, and their status is still far behind that of Yue Peng.He is inconvenient to greet.

It was not until the eunuch reported that the two army commanders Zhao Da and Zhao Hu had led the Feilong army back to the Feilong barracks, did Zhao Dongting order someone to announce Zhao Da and Zhao Hu.

These two reckless men had done a lot of military exploits on Kuizhou Road, which even impressed Zhao Dongting.

These two reckless men who didn't know anything before are now more and more like qualified army commanders.

When Zhao Da and Zhao Hu arrived at the imperial study, Zhao Dongting couldn't help but verbally praise them first.

The two brothers didn't give in either, no matter how much Zhao Dongting praised, they just laughed.It seems that Zhao Dongting's boast is just right.

This stunned Zhao Dongting a little dumbfounded, and his voice gradually changed, and instead let Zhao Da and Zhao Hu continue to study hard and not be complacent.

After speaking for about ten minutes, Zhao Dongting waved his hands and asked the two brothers to go home to accompany their mother-in-law.

The two brothers retreated in a hurry.Presumably, at this time, I also miss my mother-in-law very much.

The flying dragon army settled down in the city.

Another day.

In Southwest Jing Road, Xiao Yulin and Liu Zijun led the Tianjie Army and the rest of the Tianxiong Army to Xiangyang City.

Xiangyang city reappears the scene of armor everywhere.

It's just that the Forbidden Army of the Great Song Dynasty did not cause any harassment to the people in the city.

After the initial turmoil, the people gradually calmed down again.

No matter which dynasty soldiers take over this Xiangyang mansion, what the people have to do is to run around for their livelihood.

The Yuan Dynasty was not popular in the Song Dynasty, and no one wanted to find trouble for the Yuan Dynasty's Imperial Army.On the contrary, the behavior of the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty not to disturb the people has attracted a lot of praise.

(End of this chapter)